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Nov. 5th, 2023 10:39 pmI'd like the record to state that I called it and then I cackled.
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luxken27 and I have been doing readalong for the last three/four Halloweens and have definitely done The Last Vampire series for the last three (we just finished book 3, so that makes it easy to keep track of those), I fell down the rabbit hole of the dividing line on Christopher Pike's good books vs his weird/oh God no's and accidentally went totally nerdy on my poor pal. But because I do like to double check things, I also asked Cass as I was falling down my wordy rabbit hole and I'd like to share because, well, nailed it:
me: Last objectively good Pike book before his hiatus back in the day? And if your initial answer is a Last Vampire or Remember Me book, I'm gonna also need one of his non-series books as an additional answer. You may or may not include an essay.
Cassandra: The Visitor
Cassandra: Prayer of A False God was and still is my shit.
me: *checks summary * Yup. I just wasn't sure where you categorized The Lost Mind.
Cassandra: It was as he was turning weirder.
Cassandra: And I'm pretty sure Execution if Innocence was just...
And in case you wanted the summary I mentioned:
Not counting his Last Vampire or Remember Me series, the last book I can remember pretty much every fan agreeing was good/great looks like "The Midnight Club" in '94. After that, things get a bit YMMV before leaning hard into wtf? as Cass will quote "The Visitor" to this day and I'm more partial to the "Starlight Crystal" as my last good Pike book vote.
Nailed it.
No, but seriously, Execution of Innocence was so bad that when Ari, Cass, and I got it, we'd wordlessly hand it to the next person in line to read it and then we all sat there before collectively asking "what the fuck was that" and going off. I remember very little beyond that and using a picture of their dog as a bookmark and it still being there more than a decade later.
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luxken27 and I have been doing readalong for the last three/four Halloweens and have definitely done The Last Vampire series for the last three (we just finished book 3, so that makes it easy to keep track of those), I fell down the rabbit hole of the dividing line on Christopher Pike's good books vs his weird/oh God no's and accidentally went totally nerdy on my poor pal. But because I do like to double check things, I also asked Cass as I was falling down my wordy rabbit hole and I'd like to share because, well, nailed it:me: Last objectively good Pike book before his hiatus back in the day? And if your initial answer is a Last Vampire or Remember Me book, I'm gonna also need one of his non-series books as an additional answer. You may or may not include an essay.
Cassandra: The Visitor
Cassandra: Prayer of A False God was and still is my shit.
me: *checks summary * Yup. I just wasn't sure where you categorized The Lost Mind.
Cassandra: It was as he was turning weirder.
Cassandra: And I'm pretty sure Execution if Innocence was just...
And in case you wanted the summary I mentioned:
Not counting his Last Vampire or Remember Me series, the last book I can remember pretty much every fan agreeing was good/great looks like "The Midnight Club" in '94. After that, things get a bit YMMV before leaning hard into wtf? as Cass will quote "The Visitor" to this day and I'm more partial to the "Starlight Crystal" as my last good Pike book vote.
Nailed it.
No, but seriously, Execution of Innocence was so bad that when Ari, Cass, and I got it, we'd wordlessly hand it to the next person in line to read it and then we all sat there before collectively asking "what the fuck was that" and going off. I remember very little beyond that and using a picture of their dog as a bookmark and it still being there more than a decade later.